When did ignorance become a point of view? (“Dilbert”)
Ignorance - Ignorant Quotes
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.
The saddest thing about anyman is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. (d. 899, England)
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and […]
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance […]
Ignoramus, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
The trouble ain’t that people are ignorant: it’s that they know so much that ain’t so.
